# Anime

Light and look / Art style / Illustration. Checked 2026-10-13.

Cel-shaded Japanese animation: expressive, youthful, energetic.

- Use when: Youth brands, gaming, explainer characters.
- Phrase: anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/style/anime-style
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/style/anime-style.json

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
Anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
Anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
Anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Global look: anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Global look: anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. Anime illustration, cel shading, clean outlines, flat colour areas.
```

## Goes well with

- Flat vector: https://directorchair.ai/style/vector-flat-style

## Source

The first Director Chair spec, own words

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.